The aforementioned guidelines to paint the entire city in bands of blue and white, throughout the city, were now a given.
To protect the walls from defacing, BBMP (Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike) came up with the idea of painting blue and white bands throughout the city, including selected walls along some most-frequented roads with pictures of tourist spots, Kannada icons, animals and a host of other images including Dhanwantri Road.
The scheme which earlier provided employment for local artists – with more than 100 painters from Bangalore being involved, was now at a loss in its effectiveness since little consideration was given to whitewashing walls entirely, which earlier received a facelift with the colourful and exotic murals.
Dhanwantri Road Murals